Gary,


xinetd is not a copyright name change. xinetd means extended inetd, it has some
security extensions inetd has not. RedHat used to call the internet daemon
inetd on the 6.2 release and older. On 7.0 it changed the name as a patch was
released.


Regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra


Gary Nolan wrote:

> Just to second what James said. Setting up Linux is just that easy. My new
> job sent me on a quick Linux course a few weeks ago. We downloaded RedHat.
> Burned to cd, I think we used Nero to do this, remember that RedHat is down
> loaded in disk image. We then booted from the cd and away we go. Thanks to
> using Samba, ftp and Inetd on the 3000 all this stuff looked the same on
> Linux, just the names have been changed ie Inetd is Xinetd this is done for
> copyright reasons. One thing that is neat in Linux is if you forget to load
> an option on the install it is real quick and easy to add in what you missed
> and in most cases you do not need to reboot to use it. I will get to play
> with Linux more in the future, it looks real interesting.
>
> Gary Nolan
>

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